pulliptears said:

Probably a daft question but the boy has been to visit earlier in his Punto Evo. He asked me what ASR was. Did the googling and was impressed. Hopefully it will help him out greatly over the winter.



He asked me if I'd got it on my 1.2 500, my answer, not a bloody clue.



I know he has a button on his controls to turn it off and on, I've not paid that much attention but I'm assuming if I have its in the menu systems.



So, does the 1.2 Lounge have ASR?

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pulliptears said:

I've not been through a winter with mine yet but I'm guessing given its thinner tyres it's not too bad in snow and ice?

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jrkitching said:

It's certainly acceptable on standard tyres, but in winter conditions, it's well worth considering fitting winter tyres - there's a small thread on that subject here.

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ahmett said:

Not as standard you have to pay for it due fiats stinginess and recklessness . However I think new models do have itbecause the eu forced all new cars on sale to come with it! I believe this change happened 2014?

So bottom line; pre 2014 unless u chose it no, post 2014 all cars come with it as standard

Maybe that's why the 1.2 PoP starts at 10,420 gbp. Madness !

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jazzster500 said:

I had my 1.2 lounge dualogic on 25th September 2014, it came with ASR, And hillstart to my surprise. when I ordered it they said 12 week wait but they found one with my extras on in a day (7" TFT screen and Climate). I don't know if it was standard or just had them on.

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zanes said:

I'd rather have winter tyres than ASR/ESP for sustained winter driving. ASR is a hindrance as it detects wheelspin (as you get in snow/ice) and reduces engine output accordingly.

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UFI said:

Hence the switch, the manual even tells you to switch it off on ice/ snow.

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ESP is always on and a very good idea on snow.

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UFI said:

Hence the switch, the manual even tells you to switch it off on ice/ snow. ESP is always on and a very good idea on snow.

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UFI said:

Hence the switch, the manual even tells you to switch it off on ice/ snow. ESP is always on and a very good idea on snow.

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ahmett said:

yes. you can turn off the asr button which means you do not have traction control (cutting power to the wheels under acceleration), but you 100% of the time will have stability control (adding braking power to the car on 4 wheels separately depending on the situation when you lose control). It is impossible to turn off the stability control unless you find a way to disable it on the body computer.

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zanes said:

. However, I stand by my comment that given a car on summer tyres with ESP or a car on winter tyres without ESP I'd take the car with winter tyres for a journey with snow/ice about. Everytime. ""

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